Posted on 08/28/2013 10:34:02 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The church in America today is obsessed with being practical, relevant, successful, and well-liked. As a result, the Gospel has been relegated to the dustbin. Michael Horton explains this phenomenon and why it’s a deadly danger.
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Recently went to a regional Christian music fest and I was amazed at all the Christians who had tattoos all over. Now not that there is anything wrong with a tattoo, and keeping in mind that perhaps people got saved after they got tattoos, but it struck me as yet another example of Christians yearning to fit in with the culture.
Back a while ago it was chic to speak of being a cultural relevant church or Christian. There was a lot of discussion about life-style evangelism. That was good, but I think people went overboard in their attempt to fit in and try to be culturally relevant.
Today the divorce rate among Christians is not that much different than non-Christians. Much of the behavior of Christians mirrors that of pop-culture. Church leaders sternly warned congregations not to be so strident so as to offend. Good advice, but many took this to mean, “shut up about sinful behavior”. Again, good advice, but if we become just like pop culture in our misplaced zeal to be “relevant” or non-judgemental, we are salt that has lost its saltiness, and hence we have indeed become trampled.
Amen, this pastor is exactly correct.
Judgment begins first at the House of God.
WE lost this culture to the secular Socialstic hedonists, and the church has done nothing to preserve either our culture or liberty. Which is a testament to our doom, because the Founders intended the church to preserve our culture and keep this people a moral and religious people of which John Adams said is the only people the Constitution could adequately govern.
Gospel in the dustbin . . . BEEP!
Thanks to Lyndon B. Johnson - Democrat slaver. Add to this the fact that in 1947 the SCOTUS created a seperation between chrch and state out of whole cloth.
I’ve come to the conclusion that many preachers are atheists and think of their jobs as a way to earn a living.
I know most of them fear the government much more than they fear the God they preach about.
Ligoner Ministries PING to read later
” all the Christians who had tattoos all over”
Especially youth pastors. Really, is that necessary to be reach out to youth? The Word should be powerful enough on its own and lived by your life as an example.
I’d like all the pastors to read this at their sermons (whether sporting tattoos or strumming guitars, or preferably not)...
” 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
=Matthew 5
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35”For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW; 36 and A MAN’S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.
Socially
Accepted
Mafia
Really? What church?
Thanks for the ping!
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